You'll have that from time to time. I did that with my brother-in-law's flintlock the first time out, but I was able to trickle some 4f in the touch hole and pop it out. 3f was too course to get in the hole, but the 4f worked good.
First Flintlock
- Thread starter Rick Richard
- Start date
Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:
:haha: ain't that the truth
Pete G
76 Cal.
I have heard it said that to be considered a "seasoned" muzzleloader you must at least once:
1. Load a ball with no powder :cursing:
2. Double load
3. Fire your ramrod down range. :nono:
I've not done #3, but I have seen it happen more than once.
1. Load a ball with no powder :cursing:
2. Double load
3. Fire your ramrod down range. :nono:
I've not done #3, but I have seen it happen more than once.
This weekend I shall try to find the time to take an old ram rod to the forest and shoot it into the hillside. I do want to be considered seasoned and that will do it! :haha:
Rick Boylan
45 Cal.
- Joined
- Mar 24, 2014
- Messages
- 832
- Reaction score
- 8
I must not be a "seasoned" muzzleloader then. I've been shooting caplocks since I was 16 back in 1976 and recently got into flintlocks, but I've never done any of those yet. The closest I've come is to load some pyrodex in my CVA Hawken that wouldn't go boom. I had to put some powder in the nipple hole and shoot it out that way. That gave me a bad taste for the substitute powders. :td:
Similar threads
- Locked
